on inquiry, they found that a bull-baiting was on the point of taking place … A bull of the largest size and greatest beauty was led across the plain, adorned with ribands of various colors … he was fastened to an iron ring, which had been strongly let into the ground … An innumerable crowd of men, of women, of children, then surrounded the place … Presently, a dog of the largest size and most ferocious courage was let loose; who, as soon as he beheld the bull, uttered a savage yell, and rushed upon him … just as the dog was springing up to seize him, [the bull] rushed forward to meet his foe, and, putting his head to the ground, canted him into the air several yards … The same fate attended another, and another dog, which were let loose successively; the one was killed upon the spot, while the other, who had a leg broken in the fall, crawled howling and limping away … [then] three fierce dogs rushed upon the bull at once, and by their joint attacks rendered him almost mad … he roared with pain and fury … He hurried around the stake with incessant toil and rage, first aiming at one, then at another, of the persecuting dogs, that harassed him on every side, growling and baying incessantly, and biting him in every part.